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HEINRICH SCHÜTZ Italian Madrigals Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
1h
1 CD
HAF8905374
1611. After two years of study with Gabrieli in Venice, Heinrich Schütz tried his hand at composing madrigals on Italian poems. This mere ‘graduation exercise’ turned out to be a masterpiece: the young German composer demonstrated his ability to identify each nuance of the text with a different musical emotion, a refinement heightened here by the interpretation of Les Arts Florissants.
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Artists
- Tenor
- Miriam AllanSoprano
- Hannah MorrisonSoprano
- Sean ClaytonTenor
- Mathilde OrtscheidtViola
- Jonathan SellsBass